After a short break, reflection and review of 2008, Bracket is back!  And this year there will be more focus on this site becoming a much more useful and practical resource for the creative business sector.

The aim of Bracket is to help creative micro-businesses (such as artists, illustrators, designers, photographers) take advantage of and utilise the collaborative possibilities provided by social media – specifically around finding opportunities and collaborators, getting projects up and running, and through to completion/delivery, and demonstrating how sharing and working together can enable individual creative businesses to grow and develop.  There are also bigger social issues to address – such as sustainability – where creativity plays an important part, and more impact could be achieved if individuals harness their collective knowledge and skills to begin to develop solutions.

Whatever the final outcome might be, Bracket wants to help identify and challenge the barriers, and facilitate new ways of working for creative micro-businesses.  Therefore this website will bring inspiration, examples, case studies, advice, news and upcoming events from the wider sector for creative practitioners hoping to work collaboratively using the web.

2008 was a busy year for Bracket – researching, networking, making contacts and asking questions (and this will continue into 2009 and beyond!) so we thought we’d start by sharing some of the stuff that we’ve already discovered.

We also want to use this space to start a conversation and build a community too, so please feel free to comment where you can.